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Alvin Cecil Murray (July 27, 1895 – September 1949) was a farmer and political figure in
Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...
. He represented Gull Lake from 1944 to 1949 in the
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as a
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(CCF) member. He was born in
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, the son of John Murray and Jane Hartley, and was educated in Burford and
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. In 1917, Murray married Bertha Bailey. He lived in
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. Murray died in office at the age of 54.


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Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MLAs 1895 births 1949 deaths 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan {{CCF-Saskatchewan-MLA-stub